Medical Doctor Program year 2025 Reported 2019–2025 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

Walter Lowe

Sports Medicine Houston, TX Medical Doctor

NPI 1003996406 CMS profile 136467

6400 Fannin St Ste 1700, Houston, TX 77030

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General payments

$1,443,814

503 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$0

Paid to them · None reported · program years 2019–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Through program year 2025, Walter Lowe of Houston, TX is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $1,443,814 across 503 general payments and $0 in research payments paid to them.

No combined total General, research and ownership are kept apart. Each is reported under its own rules, and ownership is not money that moved at all but the value of a stake held. A meal, a clinical trial grant and a shareholding do not add up to anything meaningful, so this site does not add them.

General payments for this record sit in the 98th percentile of Sports Medicine profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

7 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $365,820 72
2024 General $328,227 70
2023 General $271,732 113
2022 General $132,928 28
2021 General $135,826 97
2020 General $103,322 43
2019 General $105,959 80

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Walter Lowe
  • Sports Medicine median
  • Middle half of Sports Medicine
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Walter Lowe were reported at $365,820. Among 2,404 Sports Medicine profiles paid that year, the median was $664 and the middle half received between $172 and $3,055.

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Year Walter Lowe Sports Medicine median Middle half National median
2019 $105,959 $1,176 $199–$4,249 $163
2020 $103,322 $708 $96–$2,890 $114
2021 $135,826 $1,213 $152–$3,994 $132
2022 $132,928 $1,230 $159–$3,998 $149
2023 $271,732 $584 $146–$2,836 $160
2024 $328,227 $628 $163–$3,168 $164
2025 $365,820 $664 $172–$3,055 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Arthrex, Inc. $1,174,033 310 payments
  2. Medinc of Texas $158,207 64 payments
  3. Sanara MedTech Inc. $87,391 22 payments
  4. Djo, LLC $11,321 22 payments
  5. Linvatec Corporation $5,640 37 payments
  6. Stryker Corporation $3,560 18 payments
  7. Miach Orthopaedics, Inc. $687 2 payments
  8. Pharmaceutical Business Consultants Limited $607 2 payments
  9. Newclip USA LLC $566 3 payments
  10. Goode Surgical Inc $297 2 payments
  11. Other $1,505 21 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Royalty or License $766,764 25 payments
  2. Compensation for services other than consulting, including serving as faculty or as a speaker at a venue other than a continuing education program $318,518 61 payments
  3. Consulting Fee $314,069 54 payments
  4. Travel and Lodging $28,349 83 payments
  5. Food and Beverage $15,596 279 payments
  6. Education $517 1 payment
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Arthrex Knee & Hip - Implants - Suspensory Fixation - Quad Tendon ACL TRI - QuadLink Kit $519,041 9 payments
  2. Arthrex Knee & Hip - Implants - Suspensory Fixation - Quad Tendon ACL TRI $405,327 8 payments
  3. Arthrex Knee & Hip - Implants - Suspensory Fixation - Tightrope I $405,327 8 payments
  4. Arthrex Knee & Hip - Implants - Suspensory Fixation - Quad Tendon ACL TRI $405,327 8 payments
  5. Arthrex Knee & Hip - Implants - Suspensory Fixation - Quad Tendon ACL TRI $357,010 7 payments
  6. Arthrex Knee & Hip - Implants - Suspensory Fixation - ABS Buttons & Loops - ABS Buttons $346,027 6 payments
  7. Arthrex Knee & Hip - Implants - Suspensory Fixation - Tightrope I $183,540 4 payments
  8. Arthrex Knee & Hip - Implants - Suspensory Fixation - Tightrope I $158,579 3 payments
  9. ARTHREX Knee & Hip - Implants - Suspensory Fixation - Acl Tightrope $126,240 6 payments
  10. ARTHREX Knee & Hip - Implants - Suspensory Fixation - Acl Tightrope $126,240 6 payments
  11. Other $606,891 122 payments

A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 15 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$6,838

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

13

Average age 69

Services billed

43

Share of this provider's Medicare patients with each condition
Condition among their Medicare patients Relative to the most common Share of patients
Heart failure 0%
COPD 0%
Alzheimer's or dementia 0%

Medicare Part B only: services billed to Medicare. Rows covering fewer than 11 beneficiaries are not published. Only drugs given in the clinic are itemised here; the rest of what this provider billed is in the total above.

Records

503 reported

Every payment, record by record

Date, company, amount, what it was for and the product named — filter by year, kind and company, or download as CSV.

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What this means

U.S. law requires drug and medical device manufacturers to report payments and transfers of value they make to physicians and teaching hospitals. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services publishes that record each year. This page shows what was reported about this person, and nothing else.

An ownership interest is different from the other two. It is not a payment: it is a stake — shares, options, a partnership holding — that a physician or an immediate family member held in a manufacturer during that year. The figure shown is what the stake was reported to be worth.

Research payments frequently pass through a clinician to the institution running a trial, and rarely represent personal income. They should be read differently from general payments.

Provenance

Source: CMS Open Payments · through program year 2025

Data current to program year 2025, from CMS's 2026 publication.

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